Monday, January 21, 2013

Let New York be a lesson to us all.

"Gun lobby had its silencer on last week."
Thousands of firearm owners turned out at “Gun Appreciation Day” rallies across the state on Saturday, denouncing Gov. Cuomo and decrying his new gun control law. It was a surprising spectacle, considering that in the weeks and days leading up to the Legislature’s passage of the sweeping reform bill last week, ardent Second Amendment supporters were nowhere to be seen.
“It goes against past experience,” Assemblyman Micah Kellner, a Manhattan Democrat who voted for the bill, said of the pro-gun paradox in Albany. “There was plenty of time to be there and be heard.”
A few dozen workers from the upstate Remington gun manufacturing plant trekked to Albany to demonstrate, no doubt worried about their jobs. But otherwise the absence of protestors at the Capitol was particularly astonishing, given the gun lobby’s vow to rile up its troops once it became clear in December that Cuomo was pushing for speedy passage of an expansion of the state’s assault weapons ban and a limit on the size of ammunition magazines, among other measures.
The turnout was in stark contrast to the gay marriage debate of two years ago, when the Capitol’s hallways were clogged with advocates on both sides of the issue as the Legislature considered the legalization proposal it was destined to approve.
And, earlier this month, it was hard to miss the hundreds of anti-hydrofracking protesters who lined a Capitol-plaza concourse that lawmakers had to use to reach the venue for Cuomo’s State of the State address.
Thomas King, who is head of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and a member of the National Rifle Association’s national board, was one of those who promised a major pushback against Cuomo’s drive to curb gun violence. Explaining the lobby’s misfire of advocacy, he said many gun owners couldn’t give up a day of work to come to the Capitol.
“Yes, we’re all in favor of doing whatever it takes to support the Second Amendment, but these guys have to work,” he said. “It’s not like the unions who get paid to go to Albany to protest. It’s tough for them to get out during the week.”
He said gun owners “trusted in their legislators who had always supported them in the past, the Republican Senate, to continue to do so.”

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe NY'ers would rather just get to the shooting part of the problem than waste time begging.

Yank lll

Wouldn't put it past them. said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9GxXYKx_8&bpctr=1358771446

I wouldn't put it past them. The laughing father did it for me. His kid is shot? Yet does a photo opp with the Kenyan fraud a few days later and doesn't look like she even had a splinter let alone a gunshot would?

GA Patriot said...

This will be very interesting and telling of the Regime intentions and resolve. If the Fedcoats become involved in helping the NY State Police conduct roadblocks and roundups. Wonder if the State will offer a reward for ratting out your neighbor?

AJ said...

The hard part for gun owners is that we have to work for a living.

Anonymous said...

we should tell the cops that we know where they live and will return the favor should they knock on our doors in the middle of the night.

SWIFT said...

I wonder if Gov. Cuomo thinks his anti-gun legislation will be applied to the Indians on Salamaca Reservation? The Seneca Indians have a long history of pushing back whenever the New York State government pushes them. My first wife's family was from there. Generally they are slow to anger, but 100 times slower to cool off. Be interesting to watch. Maybe New York State gun owners should reach out to the Indians in a mutual defense pact, against Cuomo's tyranny. That would be a force to be reckoned with.

NY Patriot said...

No one even knew what the text of the law was until a day or so before the stinking vote. And King Cuomo waived the constitutionally required waiting period. With the fracking and gay right bills people had month and months to learn, see, and know about it. I suppose no one really thought that our government could push through such an onerous attack on the 2nd amendment so quickly. We were obviously wrong.

The bill itself is bad enough ... but what is equally, and even mores, disturbing is the speed at which a socialist and corrupt government can steal your rights.

I hope the rest of the country DOES use the NY case as an example of how a tyrannical government can swiftly move to destroy your freedoms.

Anonymous said...

All of this talk is a waste of energy. They believe that because we are quiet, we are disinterested.
Spend your time preparing for the real conflict; how can I disrupt their plans?
The Marxists have a plan and they are implementing it. All the talk will not change their minds.
They believe we will be sheep and agree to be disarmed; piece by piece.
The moment the Marxist puts into effect, any limit the 2nd, is the moment the war for freedom begins.
That's the only thing they need to know.

Anonymous said...

'He said gun owners “trusted in their legislators who had always supported them in the past, the Republican Senate, to continue to do so.” '

There's the nut of the problem all wrapped up with a pretty bow on top.

There's an old parable about a frog and a scorpion stuck on a very temporary dry peak amid the swirling waters of a rapidly rising river. The scorpion begs the frog to rescue him by giving him a ride to the safety of higher ground. But the reluctant frog is afraid the scorpion will sting him on the way across. The scorpion points out that if he were to do that both of them would surely die. So the frog agrees and they start across the water. Half way to safety the scorpion stings the frog. With his dying breath the frog asks the scorpion why he doomed them both.

"Because I'm a scorpion! That's what we do!"

Never, ever trust a politician to have your back or tell you the truth. They are incapable of doing either. THEY ARE POLITICIANS, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!

Anonymous said...

Once again "dumb as New Yorkers"
(city & state).

This next really pertains to an
earlier post, now off the front
page: ISTR reading that Oskar
Schindler provided his workers
with some firearms, and that
these influenced the guards to
leave in the last days.

This is not, to the best of my
recollection in the book (haven't
seen the movie)

Movies where truly only the police
and military have guns are:
"Sarah's Key" and "La Rafle"


Datapoint: FWIW, the MIA flag
is still flying above the Brooklyn
courthouse.

all the best, cycjec

Anonymous said...

Perhaps just standing off and watching through a 30-30 reticle?

III

Toastrider said...

In defense, as I hear it the NY law got rushed through in the dead of night. Ninja lawmaking, if you will. They may not have even known about it till it passed.

Anonymous said...

No one was able to protest since the legislation was pushed through behind cloesed doors just before midnight when no one had time to read it and the people weren't given a chance to protest! Duh.

Anonymous said...

Maybe those dead kids all ended up in the Witness Protection Program for their service to the state with a family bonus for life.

Just being facetious.. but I saw those vids too and something is most definitely wrong there and since mullah obama is involved anything is possible.

Yank lll

Anonymous said...

Just received an email response from my House rep Bill Huizenga (R - MI) to my email last week asking him to stand against AWB/mag limits. He is rated A+ by NRA. It was one of the more weaselly letters I've read, totally non-committal. Couple that with an email I received from GOPUSA indicating there is a huge gap between women / mem support for 2nd Amendment. Things are being spun and I'm getting this tingling feeling (like spidey sense, not tingling up the leg) that we're about to be sold out.

Anonymous said...

“It goes against past experience,” Assemblyman Micah Kellner, a Manhattan Democrat who voted for the bill, said of the pro-gun paradox in Albany. “There was plenty of time to be there and be heard.”

And to be ignored afterward. We're on to your lot, pal.

Anonymous said...

They drafted this law very quickly & passed it late at night without it even read or discussed before the vote. We had no time for input period. They were so ignorant & in a rush, the 7 round limit covers LEO's as well as the rest of us. Talk about morons. Although mine isn't considered by these morons as an assault weapon, I will make sure a muzzle brake, hand grips & other crap is on it, but will not register it period. This isn't over yet, by a long shot.